KENNEDY CALLS FOR ACTION ON PATIENT SAFETY LEGISLATION

The following press release was published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Jan. 17, 2008. It is reproduced in full below.

Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office asking that it investigate why this landmark patient safety legislation, passed by Congress nearly three years ago, has not been fully implemented.

Source: Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions